{"id":5574,"date":"2015-09-27T07:29:51","date_gmt":"2015-09-27T11:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/?p=5574"},"modified":"2015-09-27T16:46:17","modified_gmt":"2015-09-27T20:46:17","slug":"men-must-do-their-christian-duty-even-in-the-time-of-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/?p=5574","title":{"rendered":"Men Must Do Their Christian Duty Even in the Time of Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Truth of Christ summed up in one hanky<\/p><\/div>\n

The sight of John Boehner sobbing and Jo Biden ‘manfully’ holding back tears behind Francis Thursday might possibly have been the low point in American history, perhaps the entire West.\u00a0 Never has civilization been so scrubbed of manly virtue and never has it been so false.\u00a0 Three fools and three liars; three men of ‘audaciousness,’ none of them Christian.\u00a0 One represents evil, the other capitulation, while Francis the Judas delivers a captive Christ. He did not even mention Him.<\/p>\n

In two plus short years Francis and his worshipers and apologists have succeeded in making the Protestant Right, the remnant voice of Faith and reason in America, despise Catholics.\u00a0 Ann Coulter is right.\u00a0 It’s Pope Francis ‘catholicism’ that is flooding Texas.\u00a0 It’s also conquering Europe and destroying the world.\u00a0 After thousands of years of Crusades and battles, what Pope would stand on an Italian rock waving Muslims into Europe and scolding her defenders?\u00a0 Only a man who hates the Faith, the sacrifices of its saints and its soldiers would do such a thing.<\/p>\n

After five centuries we’d succeeded in demonstrating to Protestants that Catholics don’t worship their Pope, and now in two years we’ve proved them right all along.\u00a0 If you remove Pope-worshipers from the cult of Francis, delete their faces from the trumped-up and tiny crowds around the country last week and from the airwaves, there would be no one left.\u00a0 Perhaps three Christians would remain who were so unfortunate to have to watch the horror pass by.\u00a0 I don’t believe for a minute there are faithful Catholics enthusiastic about Francis, because people like that are able to discern a fraud.\u00a0 They know Faith in Christ when they hear it, when they see it.\u00a0 Catholic witness and prophecy are not something Biden and Boehner cry over.\u00a0 At least Nancy Pelosi probably maintained a shred of dignity.\u00a0 Can you imagine?<\/p>\n

Maureen Mullarky<\/a> didn’t need to watch the FrancisSpeech to know what it was.<\/p>\n

In large measure, Thursday\u2019s propaganda event will prove a concluding flourish to what this pope is on course to achieve: the descent of the Catholic Church into one more geopolitical \u201cism,\u201d a pious-seeming companion to every other materialist -ism that tempts modern man away from freedom and toward submission to totalitarian order. Since ascending to the papacy, Francis\u2019 actions have served a mongrel papo-caesarism that drains Christianity of its soul. Christian idiom degrades into the carrier of a secular agenda.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“A pious-seeming companion:”\u00a0 that’s our Pope.\u00a0 You can even get a cardboard “Flat Francis” friend to seem to be your companion too, but I think they’re about $79.00.\u00a0 Talk about a throwaway culture of waste and excessive consumerism!<\/p>\n

Ideolatry, the idolatry of fixed ideas, is as rampant in the Vatican as in any other directorate, and just as dangerous. Even more so. Because the pope commands deference from the world\u2019s peoples, the present object of his worship\u2014from climate-change dogma to the antagonisms peculiar to an anti-democratic Leftist elite\u2014disfigures the faith of billions. It becomes a golden calf festooned with gospel quotes.<\/p>\n

Deference to a pope comes readily to Catholics. We are groomed for it. Within legitimate bounds, there is grace in that. But the boundaries are not totalizing. Outside of them, obeisance falls prey to forces that do not serve the church. Neither do they lend succor to a civilization painfully wrought from endemic tyrannies and universal poverty. Far, far from it.<\/p>\n

There comes a moment when deference glides into collusion. At that point, we all become Good Germans. Fascist-friendly.\u00a0Trust in respected authority curdles into a thing entirely different\u2014a willed blindness to something dark in the particular voice commanding assent. Decent and dependable, we incline toward the beckoning circle of connivance.<\/p>\n

Our own lifetime has not prepared Catholics for such a moment. But it is here now. We can adjust our sensibilities, our priorities, and our hopes to counter this juncture. Or we can surrender our children and grandchildren to a downward slide into a retrograde world order built on contempt for the bases of those very structures that have lifted a still-increasing portion of the earth\u2019s population out of the misery that is history\u2019s norm.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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FrancisChurch, it’s henchmen, and it’s dupes are not only shepherding the world into totalitarian death and squalor.\u00a0 They’re shutting down the Church, the instrument of Grace which saves souls.\u00a0 When the Church, already rendered dysfunctional and now being fitted for slaughter, is gone from the Earth, there won’t just be a return to paganism, to savage animism, or totalitarian slavery.\u00a0 There will be Hell on Earth, or if we’re lucky, Islam.\u00a0 It will be something much worse than just Cuba.\u00a0 Hell itself is also a ‘post-Christian society.’<\/p>\n

Something in me gave way at the sight of an exultant image of Che Guevara overseeing the altar in Plaza de la Revoluci\u00f3n, the approved site of the recent papal Mass in Havana. A sadistic, murderous thug looked down on attendees in an obscene burlesque of Christ Pantocrator. Under the gaze of a butcher and amid symbols of the regime, Jorge Bergolio joined his fellow Argentine in service to the calamitous Cuban revolution. The entire spectacle played like a farcical inversion of John Paul II\u2019s presence in Warsaw\u2019s Victory Square, in 1979, and in stark contrast to the message he brought to Cuba in 1998<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What collapsed was any lingering sense of obligatory constraint. Gone is the time for courtesy extended to an occupant of the papacy despite his hubris and ruinous impulses. Out the window is dutiful tolerance for this man\u2019s accusatory or incendiary language. Politesse has run its course. Historian Roberto de Mattei, writing on the wound to marriage delivered by Francis\u2019 recent motu proprio <\/em>(a personal mandate) ends his analysis with this: \u201cSilence is no longer possible.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The rest is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The seedbed of Catholic Truth and defense of the Church in our country used to be found in the faithful American Catholic Media, re-established by people like Mother Angelica during the reign of John Paul II.\u00a0 Today, from those desperate pages we hear the cry of “anti-Catholicism” at Protestants and faithful Catholics who still love Christ’s truth and justice,\u00a0 but faith ‘in Francis’ is, unfortunately, not Catholic.\u00a0 Faith in Christ is.\u00a0 To call out FrancisFaith for what it is, is not to reject the Church; it’s the way to embrace it and stick close to it.<\/p>\n

Manly Christian duty demands that we uphold the Church.\u00a0 The formula is simple: encourage those who hold the Faith and live it, but correct those who do only one of those or who do neither.\u00a0 That formula doesn’t change for anyone.\u00a0 Obedience to the Pope only goes so far as he holds the Faith and lives it.\u00a0 When he fails, our duty tells us direct action must follow.<\/p>\n

Our own neglect of this duty to correct those who live outside the Church has crushed her in our time.\u00a0 On this Earth enemies are the rule.\u00a0 Christian resistance is the exception and the way to Heaven.<\/p>\n

With whom does Francis, the author of fast, cheap, and false annulments, have more in common: King Henry XIII or his resistor Pope Clement VII?\u00a0 Must we obey now that Henry is Pope or instead challenge him in the name of Christ?<\/p>\n

Our Lord is not a man of tearful compliance in the face of evil.\u00a0 Soldiers are great because they fight, risk, and die, not because they kill.\u00a0 Our Lady is the Queen of Lepanto, not of Catholic Charities.\u00a0\u00a0 In the face of an unprecedented and unchallenged reign of a heretic king, Thomas More was ‘disobedient’ in the minds of many, but the saint maintained he acted out of love for King and country when he said,\u00a0 “I die the king’s good servant, but God’s first.”\u00a0<\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n

St. Thomas did not say, “but the Pope’s first.”\u00a0 His obedience to God was also loyal to the Pope because Clement was faithful. \u00a0 <\/em>In true Christian unity, not the type Francis rails about, all are united in Faith.\u00a0 But the reign of Francis is like the reign of Henry.\u00a0 It’s against the Church <\/em>and cannot be a source of unity. \u00a0<\/span>Popes are supposed to uphold the Faith, not destroy it in the name of ‘mercy’ and ‘the poor.’\u00a0 We must go on being loyal sons of the Church even when the Pope is wrong, not lay down and lie in the name of obedience.<\/p>\n

Tears are for the field of battle I’m sure, and for men like\u00a0 Boehner, hopefully at the judgment seat of Our Lord, but they’re an ugly and pitiful sight standing behind ‘the Francis’ in Congress. The Church needs men of duty, not men like that.<\/p>\n

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